From: Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smiley regexp problem
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:36:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m364zlh182.fsf@rajsekar.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5k6o27zuv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:48:40 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
>
>> Rajsekar <rajsekar@cse.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
>>
>>> I want to setup the smileys similar to gaim.
>>> So I put
>>>
>>> "\\(:)\\)\\W" for smile.
>>> and
>>> "\\(:))\\)\\W" for laugh.
>>>
>>> The problem is that :)) also contains a :). At the same time, i do not
>>> want to replace \W with something like [^)] because i lose the advantage of
>>> \W (which works based on the current syntax). I want something like \\W
>>> minus the character `('. Can someone tell me how to achieve this?
>>
>> I see from theory that the needed language is still a regexp, yet i
>> am not able to express it in the language of regexp. Is it a
>> shortcoming in the language?
>
> Why don't you match "laugh" first, and only look for a smile if no
> laugh is can be found?
The code to add the smiley (gnus/smiley.el) does not allow me to do that.
If I have `:))', both, smile and laugh pictures get inserted.
--
Rajsekar Manokaran
IIT Madras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-17 11:55 smiley regexp problem Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:23 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-20 21:48 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 8:06 ` Rajsekar [this message]
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2005-03-21 10:47 LENNART BORGMAN
2005-03-21 12:12 ` Rajsekar
2005-03-21 13:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-21 19:53 ` Rajsekar
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